PHP chown

[FinalFrontier]

Does anyone know why this isn't working? I've gone through the manual over and over for the chown string, system string, etc etc etc. I still can't get it working.

 

chown('/home/n/Miscellaneous/uploaded files/*', n);

chown('/home/n/Miscellaneous/uploaded\ files/*', n);

[FinalFrontier]

Basically. when someone uploads a file to my private server, the file is owned by www-data. I am wanting to make it so the file is owned by me, and looking for a quick way to achieve it. I tried this, but its not working and I have no idea why:

 

<?php
$target_path = "/home/n/Miscellaneous/uploaded files/" . basename($_FILES['file']['name']);
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
	basename($_FILES['file']['name']);
}
system('chown n /home/n/Miscellaneous/uploaded\ files/');
?>

 

Any suggestions?

[dweeber]

Only the superuser may change the owner of a file.  Your webserver is not the superuser (hopefully)

 

Perhaps you can just chmod the file so you have permission to use it.  Since the file is owned by the webserver, it can change the permissions of the file like:

 

chmod("/somedir/somefile", 666);

 

or whatever.  As it is your server, there are many other options from the system level as well.

 

Ref:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.chown.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php